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Break up the cable monopolies? Democrats propose new competition laws

Senate and House Democratic leaders today proposed new antitrust laws that could prevent many of the biggest mergers and break up monopolies in broadband and other industries. "Right now our antitrust ... read more

Democrats Propose Rules to Break up Broadband Monopolies

The Democratic party this week released a new party platform -- one that proposes new rules that could break up existing broadband monopolies ... to merge if it reduces competition." The outline of th... read more

Elizabeth Warren Kicks Off Presidential Bid With Challenge to Super Wealthy — and Other Democrats

Viewed alongside a new proposal from Sanders to hike ... In her speech, she pledged to go further, to “break up monopolies when they choke off competition” and “take on Wall Street banks ... read more

And a number of papers have documented how corporate mergers have reduced competition and new business formation ... rather than just expanding market-based incentives; or break up the big tech monopo... read more

The Return of Monopoly

Monopoly—the ultimate enemy of free-market competition—now ... emerging Brandeisian wing of the Democratic Party. In 2015, she called for reimposing Glass-Steagall, the powerful anti-monopoly law pass... read more

Can Amazon, Facebook, Google be tamed by being forced to share their data?

Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) has fleshed out its idea for a 'data for everyone' law ... break up data monopolies. There would still be protection for sensitive business secrets and other da... read more

Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech

Within weeks, more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout New England got raises. Within months, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a minimum wage law ... made. ... read more

It's not just banks anymore. Democrats want to break up all kinds of big business.

The pitch for stricter enforcement of antitrust laws ... competition in their industry. For the biggest deals, the merging corporations' lawyers would have to persuade a judge that merging would be be... read more

Robert Reich: Break Up Facebook (and, While We’re At It, Google, Apple and Amazon)

America responded to the Gilded Age’s abuses of corporate power with antitrust laws that allowed the government to break up ... Democrats’ new “better deal” platform, which they unveiled a few months ... read more

Elizabeth Warren’s speech as she began her presidential run

Within weeks, more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout New England got raises. Within months, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a minimum wage law ... made. ... read more